Brother Oz

I don't agree with that. I would say it is, currently, the other way around. Most of it reasonably okay, but there are exceptions (Somalia, Zimbabwe, Sudan). Yes, 20 years ago the continent was ravaged by wars, but most of it is relatively peaceful. A good number of the countries of sub-Saharan Africa are democracies. Corrupt ones yes, but probably less corrupt than, say, early 19th century Britain. The Congo war which blighted the centre of Africa is over, as is the civil war in Sierra Leone which destabilised a large amount of West Africa. Africa is now on the road to recovery.

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... I am surprised at your insolence in writing to me at all. You know, as I know, that I bought this constituency... may God's curse light upon you and may it make your women as open and as free to the excise officers as your wives and daughters have always been to me while I have represented your scoundrel corporation.
I have the honour to be... your obliged humble servant, Anthony Henley
- MPs reply to constituent, mid 1700s